Part 3: Street, Storm Water, and Utilities
Time limit: 90 days
3 credits
Instructor: Zachary Frye
Full course description
Course Overview
This course takes a focused look at the construction drawings at the core of a heavy civil plan set: street and storm water plan and profile sheets and utility plans. Building on foundational plan set navigation skills, this course equips professionals with the ability to read the documents that drive daily field operations, the sheets that define where pipe goes, at what elevation, and how surveyors verify it was installed correctly. Using the Everhart Road reconstruction project in Corpus Christi, Texas, as a real-world case study, participants will learn to extract profile grades, interpret call outs, track revisions, and navigate the utility sections covering water lines, storm drain, wastewater, IT conduit, and gas. Taught from the perspective of Zach Frye, an experienced survey manager with JE Construction Services, this course bridges classroom learning and real-world field conditions.
Professional Benefits
Practical skills for reading and applying construction plan and profile sheets in the field
Ability to connect call outs, elevations, and lateral sheets to staking and grade verification
Real-world case study applicable to a wide range of heavy civil construction projects
Expert insights from experienced survey management professionals
Certified hours toward CEU credits
Learning Outcomes
By completing this course, participants will:
Understand the plan and profile sheet format and interpret both the plan view and the profile view.
Read stationing, apply right/left offset conventions, and locate features along the alignment.
Extract top of curb and flow line elevations from call outs and cross-check them against the profile graph.
Calculate slope percentage from call outs and verify it independently using the profile view.
Identify red lines, revision clouds, and revision triangles, and confirm use of the current plan version.
Read storm lateral and waterline lateral sheets for pipe sizes, bends, and top-of-pipe elevations.
Navigate intersection plans, curb ramp detail sheets, and parking lot plans.
Interpret water line, wastewater, IT conduit, and gas line plan and profile sheets.
Recognize the survey manager's role in laying out, staking, and verifying utility installations in the field.
Module Breakdown
Target Audience
- Survey managers and field operations professionals
- Civil engineering technicians
- Construction management professionals
- General public interested in understanding construction documents
Technical Requirements
- High-speed internet connection
- Modern web browser
- Audio capability
- Optional: printer for supplementary materials
Note: This is Part 3 of a four-part series. This course awards 3 professional development hours (CEU certified). Course access begins immediately upon registration, and content is self-paced within 90 days. Participants are responsible for verifying acceptance with their individual state licensing board.
For registration assistance, contact The Conrad Blucher Institute at cbi-info@listserv.tamucc.edu
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